Case Studies Of Industrial Robots

Robots in action can be found everywhere. Robot Manufacturers give examples of robot applications in different industries.

Kawasaki, Germany - IFR Partner

Sweet fruits efficiently packaged

For palletizing the finished products in the jam and spread section, ZENTIS decided to replace the out-of-date 3-axis set packing system by a new robot plant by Kawasaki. An important motivation for this decision was the precipitous increase in the variety of products and of jar forms.

Adept Technology, Inc. announced it is participating in the CLARA (Lyon Auvergne Rhone-Alpes Cancer cluster) program with Lyon Civil Hospitals as the robotics component in a method for treating small cancer tumors.

LPKF helps automotive designers make their innovative ideas a reality - Metal and glass automobile headlight and taillight assemblies are yesterday's technology. Plastic is the modern material allowing the new trends to be set in car design. Now another design enabling technology opens up even more freedom for the design and size of automobile lights; the turnkey hybrid welding machine.

In the middle of the Emsland lies the Dörpener Palettenfabrik (DPF), a pallet manufacturer which is able to produce up to 6,000 pallets a day with the help of the latest Kawasaki robot technology. Together with their system partner VANDERLOO GmbH, Messrs. Kawasaki Robotics have designed and built a fully automated production line for the manufacture of pallets for DPF.

Fully automatic production of medical micro-components: For the manufacturing of indicator wheels, housing parts and exiguous cog wheels Forteq Healthcare in Nidau/Switzerland is using WITTMANN linear servo-robots in the clean room. The target is: Shortest cycle times at highest availability.

KUKA is playing a key role in the development of an innovative automated system for assembling complex aircraft structures in collaboration with Europe's leading airplane manufacturer. The automation specialist has devised a flexible robotic solution for performing a variety of drilling and fastening tasks on the upper and lower wing covers of a lateral wing box demonstration unit being built at the Airbus facility in Filton.

Thermoforming/Vacuum Forming has helped grow the business for the Vitelo Group, based in Meulebeke - Belgium. To fulfil a contract for the John Deere Corporation, the company have installed a fully automated robot cell. The robot cell performs the Plasma Treatment and Bonding of the two part product.

A small family business exploits the flexibility of a KUKA robot for pallet production To react quickly and flexibly to the pallet production requirements of their customers, they now rely on the help of a KUKA robot. A KR 210 L180 K collects the finished pallets from the end of the pallet nailing machine and stacks them up.

Bayer Schering Pharma chooses Stäubli robots for its automatic drug packaging line developped by Klaus Radke Industrietechnik. The fully enclosed six axis robots allow interruption free production featuring high precision and reliability. One bag packaging line equipped with the new heavy-payload 6 axis robot TX200 benefits from the unique features of its 100 kg payload.

Manufacturer of construction and excavators, Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe, has invested in Panasonic welding robots for its production plants in Holland. Based on the excellent experience within the organization with Hitachi Panasonic arc welding equipment and the planned increase in capacity of the Dutch plants, robot integrator Valk Welding installed recently three welding robot systems.